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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Decision at Sundown was one of several felicitous collaborations between star Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher. Scott plays a flint-eyed gunman who rides into a sleepy town to drive out local tough guy John Carroll by sundown. Scott is motivated not by justice but by revenge; years earlier, Carroll had stolen Scott’s wife. The woman subsequently killed herself, and the fact that she had left Scott willingly is torturing both men, each of whom feels partially responsible for her death....

60 votes and 16 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 82% In Theaters: July 1, 2011 (limited) Action, Adventure, Comedy Tashi, Arun and Nitin—flatmates, buddies and partners in crime. Tashi is to get married in a month but still doesn’t know if his fiancé is THE ONE! Arun can’t make up his mind who he wants to kill first—his girlfriend who has just dumped him or his stupid, annoying boss whose idea of creativity is sketching a smiling banana!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama Two wealthy families of Amalapuram go for tug of war even for small issues to satisfy their egos. The children of these two families are also egoists like their elders and play games on each other. However, they later fall in love but unexpectedly the hero gets stuck in a crime in Hyderabad forcing them to split. The hero escapes from prison hands over culprits to the police and gets the kidnapped heroine released....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary everyday People examines the small western Michigan villages of Saugatuck and Douglas, towns the culture wars forgot. Nestled next to each other along the Kalamazoo River with populations of just over 1,000, these rural villages have a substantial, but decidedly minority, gay population. In an area with many conservative and religious roots, gays and straights do not merely tolerate one another, but are thoroughly integrated politically, economically, socially and religiously....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Two decades ago, filmmaker Yair Lev made “Hugo,” a film about his father, a survivor of Auschwitz, in which the older man revealed his most passionate belief: “It is most important for a man to be strong.” Now, Lev returns with “Hugo 2,” the result of his ruminations about his thin and frail son: Would he have survived his grandfather’s experience? A moving film that captures the inherited past and its implications, from survivor to child to grandchild....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Making the Boys” explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Beloved by some for breaking new ground, and condemned by others for reinforcing gay stereotypes, The Boys in the Band sparked heated controversy that still exists four decades later. Featuring anecdotes from the surviving cast and filmmakers, as well as perspectives by legendary figures from stage and screen, “Making the Boys” traces the behind-the-scenes drama and lasting legacy of this cultural milestone....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary follows the lives of renowned cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, from escaping the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary to present day. As film students in Hungary, they shot footage of the Russian invasion of Budapest and subsequently volunteered to smuggle it out of the country. Barely escaping with their lives, they fled to America and settled in Hollywood, eventually saving enough money to buy their own 16mm camera to begin shooting movies....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation This animated children’s fantasy from Mexico concerns the adventures of several unhatched eggs, on a farm, who have taken on anthropomorphic qualities - including Wally and Bibi. Also in the picture is Toto, who has hatched from an egg into a chicken and, per his species, projects the utmost cowardice. An evil egg witch who inhabits the desert sends out three evil huevos - a vulture egg, an ostrich egg, and a scorpion egg - to kidnap Toto, and Toto’s friends must launch a daring rescue....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 84% R | 1h 32m | Action, Adventure, Drama Based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Hunter, John Boorman’s gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Reese (John Vernon) and left to die while Reese takes off with Walker’s wife Lynne (Sharon Acker) and his $93,000....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Premer Kothakoli is an extraordinary love story that harps on a series of relationships, each different from the other. The film evolves around a crisis faced by the protogonist, the eventual consequence of the crisis as well as the way it progresses as dictated by destiny.Produced by Surakha and Drected by Alok Kumar Roy it features a stellar cast of actors such as Arjun Chakraborty, Dolon Roy, Pallabi Chatterjee, Shantilal Mukherjee, Arunima Ghosh along with Drono Mukherjee and Nibedita Chatterjee....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 1977, three investors opened a street hockey rink in western Berks County, PA. The rink operated for thirty years, and thousands of players ran and made ten-bell saves on its surface. The rink closed in 2005. Thirty-two former players, managers, and owners provide the history, stories, and reflections that show how one small facility proved to be monumental in the hearts and minds of a great many people....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Family Skippy Skinner spends most of his time trying to get around doing those things that his parents want him to do, while doing those things his parents don’t want him to do. Chief among the latter is spending time across the railroad tracks in Shantytown, instead of playing with “clean” neighborhood kids like brother and sister Sidney and Eloise. Skippy’s father, Dr. Herbert Skinner, the city’s head of the health board, in particular doesn’t like Skippy spending time there....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 1, 2013 (limited) March 1, 2013 (limited) March 15, 2013 (limited) 1h 29m | Drama Watch Trailer When a young father’s wife unexpectedly dies, he struggles with raising a child on his own, while trying to grow up himself. He falls for a single mother from whom he learns that his choices can have real-life consequences. Director: Mark Webber Studio: Gravitas Producer(s): Elizabeth Destro, Mark Webber, Matt Sprague, Mollie Engelhart...

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Drama, War The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne’s role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963), but it was evident to the worldwide public that the same bravado that flew well in World War II crash-landed in 1968 in the wake of a very different war and political time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 23m | Drama Martin (Ralph Richardson) is a widowed British reverend who knows his parishioners better than his own children. Martin’s detachment from his family is never more evident than at Christmas, when the family comes together to celebrate. While Martin’s daughter Jenny (Celia Johnson) lives at home out of devotion, she doesn’t have the heart to tell him that she wants to move out....

514 votes and 183 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% 73% In Theaters: October 7, 2011 R | 1h 41m | Drama Watch Trailer A young press spokesman (Ryan Gosling) falls prey to backroom politics, the treacherous manipulations of veteran operatives and seduction by a young intern (Evan Rachel Wood) while working for a Governor Morris (George Clooney), a candidate running in the presidential primary race for the Democratic Party ticket....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance Director Sam Garbarski marked his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with the family-comedy drama Le Tango des Rashevski (The Rashevski Tango), a tale of one extended family’s struggle to find meaning and identity within their own somewhat dormant Jewish heritage. When 81-year-old family matriarch Rosa Rashevski passes away, her descendants are left unprepared, as they have no idea what traditional Jewish rites they should be practicing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure In 1897, the Poisoned Knife clan broke into the royal palace of Thailand to steal the Royal Antiques which the King intended to give to America as a reward for its help in negotiations that avoided Thai territorial cuts. The clan succeeded in stealing the antiques, but the thieves didn’t escape with their lives. Before their deaths, they hid the antiques somewhere close to the palace....

0 votes and 0 Reviews War Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The Jewish question is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler’s climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 83% In Theaters: January 11, 2013 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama Wiz and Nirupama are a married couple living in America. Each has an agenda and seems to have achieved their wishes in three years of matrimony. Nirupama gets her Phd and Wiz runs his dance class in New Jersey unhindered by each other. All is fine till Dr. Nirupama aspires for more and wants to opt out of the arranged marriage....